A Cossack Beyond the Danube (movie)
Запорожець за Дунаєм- Production country: Soviet Union
- Producer: V. Larpoknysh
- Production companies: Dovzhenko Film Studios
- Genre: Music, Romance
- Release date: 7/19/1953
- Run time: 95 min.
Movie description
Zaporozhets za Dunayem (Ukrainian: Запорожець за Дунаєм, translated as A Zaporozhian (Cossack) Beyond the Danube, also referred to as Cossacks in Exile) is a Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–1873). The orchestration has subsequently been rewritten by composers such as Reinhold Glière and Heorhiy Maiboroda. This is one of the best-known Ukrainian comic operas depicting national themes.
